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Minnesota congresswoman draws on Obama fears at St. Louis event.

Americans seem a lot quicker to be roused by the prospect of foreign nationals spending money in U.S. elections than, say, big domestic corporations, but why

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GUANTANAMO BAY -- A brief detour from my Guantanamo coverage, as a State Department official, speaking only on background, confirmed something else I’ve been

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and committee members Christopher Dodd (D-Ct.), Russell Feingold (D-Wis.), and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.)

This is the second in a series on the military and online social networking sites. In recent years the Pentagon has moved to ban many “Web 2.0”

At the House Republicans’ recent weekend retreat, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney told them to come up with a health care plan before the

Even as the Senate Finance Committee just shot down a long-debated proposal to create a public insurance plan, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), chairman of the Senate

In a London address on Thursday, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, repeatedly defended President Obama’s review of Afghan strategy, though coverage claimed he broke from the White House.

Republican presidential hopefuls have been busy crisscrossing the country in the lead-up to election day, performing last-minute favors on behalf of candidates

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce isn’t just using its cash to flood the airwaves, reports the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard this afternoon; it’s also been

It sure looks that way. As I mentioned in a previous post, Defense News got a leaked draft copy of the Quadrennial Defense Review, an important Pentagon

Critics of the 287 (g) program, which deputizes local police for immigration enforcement in some areas, gained some ammunition Friday in the form of a report

Speaking at the Center for American Progress, Afghanistan’s foreign minister, Rangin Dadfar Spanta, made a full-throated plea for the United States not to back

Apropos of my earlier post about the Anbar Awakening, subscription-only IraqSlogger has an interesting report suggesting that Awakening/tribal/Sons of Iraq

One of the lower-key workshops at the How to Take Back America conference was How to Deal With Vote Fraud, the Census, and ACORN, where Republican pols Kris

Tomorrow, the federal backing for some unemployment benefits will expire, with Congress away until next week. That means another wave of Americans will lose

Tom Ricks reported earlier this week that Gen. Odierno’s relationship with the new U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Chris Hill, is deteriorating rapidly. Hill denied

The Democratic National Committee is keeping up its attacks on skeptical voters showing up at congressional town halls, using this week to define them the way

It’s worth noting: Despite the new EPA scrutiny (and potential repeal) of the Bush-era permit approving the largest mountaintop coal mine in West Virginia’s

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, speaking at Tehran University for Friday prayers, says the elections are fair and the protests have gone far

RIP, Robert McNamara. Nothing you ever did after Vietnam zeroed the balance. So when will Errol Morris make his Rumsfeld documentary?